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Jews For Justice For Palestinians (the largest alternative voice of Jews in the UK or Europe) utterly condemns Israel’s aggressive military interception of the peaceful Free Gaza aid flotilla. We hold Israel responsible for the tragic deaths and injuries which this action caused…
PLUS: statement issued by Scottish Jews for a Just Peace

The big story of the week was the Gaza Freedom Flotilla – though you wouldn’t have known it until the last minute if your only source of information was the British media. Eight large boats and with more than 10,000 tonnes of supplies, including water-filtration units and pre-fabricated homes, have caused a near panic reaction in Israel. More than anything else, it has brought home the sheet cruelty as well as illegality of Israel’s policy toward Gaza, with Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, reiterating a call for an immediate end to Israel’s blockade. As this summary was being prepared there was as yet no news as to the fate of the convoy…

The vexed question of how Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks leave massive holes in children’s education was given an airing at an IPCRI organised seminar in Jerusalem on Wednesday, with contributions from Gershon Baskin, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Israeli researchers from IMPACT-SE and a former director of curriculum development for the Palestinian Authority.

Obama is preparing for the mid-term elections in November by wooing the Israel lobby. “Optimists believe that on that morning, a new era will start. No further elections are planned before November 2012, when Obama’s first term expires. For an entire year, at least, he will be free to act… But there is also an opposite forecast: Obama will continue to disappoint, as he has disappointed until now… “

Richard Silverstein writes: “Yesterday night, the Israeli secret police and their judicial subordinates announced the indictments of Ameer Makhoul and Omar Said. And I’m sorry to say both for the victims and the State of Israel that the bill of particulars is a laughingstock. Nevertheless, the Shin Bet, with these lurid, barely supportable charges has put blood in the water of the body politic. Now Israelis, prone to see “the Arabs” as a fifth column already, will be like sharks circling for the kill. Get them, burn them, hang them, expel them. You will hear all this and more from Israeli Jews…”

And, in a separate piece, Ameer’s partner and his brother write about his ordeal…

Rachel Shabi reports: The Palestinian Authority has recently passed a law prohibiting the sale of such goods, with potential fines and prison terms imposed on those that flout it. The authority has dispatched 3,000 volunteers to canvass door to door in the West Bank, explaining what products should be boycotted and why…

29 May: Swedish author Henning Mankel hasn’t turned up for his planned speech at the Hay book festival – according to the Guardian he ‘has an excuse not many will be able to argue with’ – because he’s ‘leading an aid convoy to Palestine,’ which has been ‘delayed, and is in the process of negotiating entry into Israeli waters’…

“Israel will try to block flotilla from reaching Gaza, but will let aid through…” Links to articles by the ISM (“Israel’s Disinformation Campaign”), Diaa Hadid for AP (“Israel’s Gaza blockade baffles residents”), Isabel Kershner NYT (“Ships Head to Gaza, in Defiance of Israeli Blockade”, and the Gaza Freedom flotilla website among others…

Chris McGreal reports: “Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons…”

Jonathan Cook on a Knesset committee report just published that “presents an image of massive under-representation of Arab citizens across most of the public sector, including in government companies and ministries, where the percentage of Arab staff typically falls below two per cent of employees […]

Following lobbying efforts by the Italian Coalition Against Carmel-Agrexco, two major Italian supermarket chains, COOP and Nordiconad, announced the suspension of sales of products from Agrexco, the principal exporter of produce from Israel and the illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. […]

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